Exam 4: Health and Illness

What are the problems resulting from the free market and profit-making nature of the U.S.health-care system?

Why is managed care considered to be a threat to the independence and autonomy of medical practitioners?

Which of the following is one of the achievements of the Medicare and Medicaid programs?

Which of the following is true of chronic diseases?

Which of the following perspectives is particularly useful to understand the societal reaction to some diseases like acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)and mental illness?

Health maintenance organizations (HMOs)differ from other health-care providers in that HMOs ________.

________ is the treatment of people's illnesses after they become ill.

The initial reactions of people in political and economic power to the spread and control of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)implied that ________

What is the significance of the revised definition of death?

________ diseases progress over a long period of time and often exist long before they are detected.

The country of Duligan is undergoing major changes in its health-care system.Many interest groups have begun to propagate the community treatment approach for the treatment of the mentally ill.As a result,the government was forced to open many community health centers.Consequently,many mentally ill people began to be treated in these community centers than in psychiatric wards of mental hospitals.This shift in the treatment of the mentally ill is known as ________.

According to sociologist Talcott Parsons,the preferred or most functional human condition is ________.

Expensive medical services in the country of Namiru are reserved for people who meet certain criteria.Such services are offered only to those who,in turn,provide a greater number of services to maximum other people if they live.Namiru's health-care policy is based on the ________.

The ________ represents a coincidence of interests between physicians and other health-care providers and the industries producing health-care goods and services,with both parties profiting from the increased use of these commodities while the health-care consumer pays enormous costs for inadequate care.

According to psychiatrist Thomas Szasz,mental disorders ________.

Why are savings through automation not as easy to achieve in the health field as in other industries?

Which of the following measures has been taken by hospitals to cut back on their costs and increase their profits?

According to the conflict perspective,the health-care system in the U.S.is characterized by ________.

According to the functionalist perspective,the health-care system becomes a social problem when ________.

The violation of social norms in which the violator is not caught or is excused rather than labeled as a deviant is known as ________.